Blending Sounds into Words

🎯 What You'll Learn

You will learn to blend individual sounds together to make a word — the most important skill for reading!

🌟 Let's Start

In Unit 1, you blended syllables. Now you will blend individual sounds! Listen: /d/ - /o/ - /g/. Say them faster: d-o-g. Faster: dog! You just read a word by blending sounds! This is exactly what readers do.

📚 New Concept

Sound blending means pushing separate sounds together to make a word.

Steps to blend:

1. Say each sound slowly: /s/ ... /i/ ... /t/
2. Say them a bit faster: s-i-t
3. Say them as one word: sit!

Practice blending:

• /r/ - /u/ - /n/ = run
• /b/ - /e/ - /d/ = bed
• /m/ - /a/ - /p/ = map
• /f/ - /i/ - /sh/ = fish
• /h/ - /a/ - /n/ - /d/ = hand

Try these longer ones:

• /s/ - /t/ - /o/ - /p/ = stop
• /d/ - /r/ - /i/ - /n/ - /k/ = drink

🎮 Let's Practice

1. Blend: /p/ - /e/ - /n/. What word is it?
2. Blend: /g/ - /o/ - /t/. What word is it?
3. Blend: /s/ - /t/ - /a/ - /r/. What word is it?

Click to see answers

1. /p/ - /e/ - /n/ = pen
2. /g/ - /o/ - /t/ = got
3. /s/ - /t/ - /a/ - /r/ = star

💡 Remember

Blending sounds is the key to reading. Say each sound, then push them together faster and faster until you hear the word. You are learning to read!